DECORATED paper plates designed by pupils at a Warwickshire school have been delivered to children in Africa.

It is part of a harvest project with Coventry-based children’s international charity Global Care.

Each of the plates had £2 attached and pupils from Warwick Preparatory School raised a total of £370 to help feed children living in one of the world’s biggest slums in Kibera, Kenya.

The pupils wrote messages and harvest prayers on the plates, which have now been delivered to Spurgeons Academy, in Kibera.

The money will be used to support the feeding programme at the school, which provides two healthy meals a day for its pupils, who all come from backgrounds of extreme poverty.

The plates were hand-delivered by Global Care’s operations director Paul Rowell, during a recent visit.

He said: “The children really enjoyed looking at the plates and reading the messages of support and the prayers which the Warwick pupils had written.

“It always really encourages children to realise that far away, children just like them are thinking of them, and working to support them.

“We are really grateful to Warwick Prep for their support of this initiative, as it encouraged both the children and the staff.

“Feeding is a really important part of the care which the Spurgeons staff seek to give their students, but it is also expensive, and this gift was very welcome.”

Deborah Ward, head of prep at Warwick Preparatory School said the children put a great deal of thought into their messages for the children in Kibera.

“It is fantastic for them to see their plates and donations so quickly given to children in Kenya as it really helps them to understand the link between fundraising and helping individuals and communities.”

Global Care took on responsibility for Spurgeons in January this year.

Kibera is one of the largest slums in east Africa, with up to one million people living in an area of about two square miles.